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Konigplatz smacked of Sadowa and Sedan and a long line of national glories running back to Teutoberg. But the old war lord has been unhorsed, and in his place there sits a female figure, symbol of democracy. For Konigplatz gives way to Platz der Republik...
...ceremony began with a rendition of Brahms' mournful First Symphony, played by the Philharmonic Orchestra. This over, Prof. Platz of Bonn University acted as public orator, skilfully avoided use of the word "republic." He declared that the "outside world still listens keenly when it hears the name of Weimar, although it is not thoroughly convinced when the Constitution of Weimar is mentioned." The Constitution, he added, is "holding a middle ground between Communism in the East and individualism in the West. "We must," said he, "emancipate ourselves from this mad tendency to permit our national life to become Americanized...
With such thoughts in their heads, hundreds of Jews made their way to the Freiheit Platz to attend the first session of the congress. Throughout the city 6,000 police were posted. Around the Platz were more than 500 sabred police, holding back a growling, rumbling, angry crowd...
...Stevenson case is filled with rare and amusing leaflets and pamphlets which were issued at the Davos-Platz Press, with rough woodcuts by Stevenson himself. Among the Kipling items are shown an original draft of the first two verses of the "Recessional"; proof sheets of "Kim" with corrections in the author's hand, and several other equally interesting pamphlets...
...Harold N. Fowler has the graduate contribution this time.- a paper entitled "Recollections of a German Gymnasium." The particular "gymnasium" to which Mr. Fowler refers is the Kreuzschule of the Georg Platz in Dresden, and in the course of his article he gives a thorough description of the methods employed in German schools, the hours of study, the studies themselves, peculiarities of teaching and gradation of pupils. The paper is on the whole a clear and concise exposition of the "German way of doing things," a system which has so many advantages over the American in certain respects, that...